A commentary on rabbinic texts and toxicality

September 16, 2005

Baseball is hazardous for Jewish jocks ...

Gabe Kapler was hustling around the bases on Thursday -- then he suddenly collapsed in the infield due to a ruptured Achilles tendon. Ouch! I guess poor Gabe's out for the season. Refu'ah shleymah (speedy recovery) to Gabe.

Also, a belated refu'ah shleymah to Adam Greenberg, the unlucky guy who got horribly beaned facing his very first pitch in the majors. Cubs update here. His parents and three siblings were watching, imagine how they felt.

So, will Rabbi Moses Feinstein zt"l be posthumously rethinking his ruling to allow professional baseball under Jewish law? Well, Reb Moshe didn't overturn his own precedents often. Adam and Gabe, maybe he'll put in a good word for your with the heavenly front office....

Comments

I was so sad for poor Gabe! We're big Sox fans in my house (and also Gabe Kapler fans; there's a story here that explains why, though you have to scroll about halfway down, to the part which begins "Mission two: The hat") so we winced when we saw that injury. Refuah shlemah, indeed.